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Commentary

Biden, Trump not too old for president

A special counsel won’t file particular criminal charges against Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. One reason is that Biden “will likely present himself to the jury, as he did during his interview with our office, as a sympathetic, well meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” the special ...

Other voices

Feds’ road sign suggestion misguided State highway road signs have taken a turn in recent years, taking advantage of electronic options to get the point across using a bit of humor. Not all of them have been good. Some barely reached the level of dad jokes that have been around for ...

The everyday dose of reality

The creative geniuses in the advertising world who came up with the Geico Gecko and the AFLAC duck, spend all their time thinking up ways to capture our attention. The advertising brainiacs have figured out that only consumers over age 50 watch the televised evening news. The problem with ads ...

Changes to state law don’t always age well

I read with some concern a recent OBSERVER article about the crime wave being carried on by a 16-year-old male in downtown Dunkirk over the last month resulting in damage and business disruptions impacting numerous merchants Apparently, the youth has been arrested on numerous occasions but has ...

It’s not all love for Valentine’s Day

The job of historians, archaeologists, theologians, and researchers in general is to dig up stuff from the past and piece it all together in order to formulate theories about things that happened eons ago — theories that only a Time Machine could prove to be true. A professor at Yale, Noel ...

The delinquent property tax report

I suppose that I could be accused of having “too much time on my hands” to write about this…but let me try anyway. Recently, as happens every year under the requirements of state law, a list of delinquent property taxpayers was published in the newspaper. It was eight full pages of ...